yeah if I had to guess I'd say they're bullshitting about that. These things are pricey (though worth it), gonna end up being like 35 with shipping... I'd say there's pretty much no way the Cap'n has the pull to make 1000 35 dollar records disappear in what amounted to 4 or 5 hours. I mean, there's a fanbase, but come on.

yeah if I had to guess I'd say they're bullshitting about that. These things are pricey (though worth it), gonna end up being like 35 with shipping... I'd say there's pretty much no way the Cap'n has the pull to make 1000 35 dollar records disappear in what amounted to 4 or 5 hours. I mean, there's a fanbase, but come on.

I can believe it. With all the hype surrounding this project I'm sure some people were buying up a few at a time.

I can believe it. With all the hype surrounding this project I'm sure some people were buying up a few at a time.

judging from the guy attempting to flip it on ebay for $250without even having it in his possession yet, you may be right about people scooping it up. but i'd still be amazed. I mean, what publicity did this release get? You essentially had to be glued to his twitter feed to buy this thing, and even then we're taking about only a couple of tweets the day before release. It's not like this blew up the front page of pitchfork or something, think they're keeping it low-key to avoid being hassled about samples. Maybe if people were able to buy like 5 or 10 at a time... I just can't picture 1000 people dropping 35 bucks on an instant cop like that. I mean, some of my big flylo-fan friends were not even aware of it by the time it sold out let alone had decided whether it was worth it to drop that dough.

An unknown identity can cause quite a bit of hysteria for some reason.

Overall tho, the whole product, music, art and mystery of who he really was, were executed very well. The hype started for me on these boards. Some thread some kid posted. That's a few thousand people. X's that by 3 other similar message boards, that's almost 10 000. Get Earl SweatShirt, that's a few hundred thousand. Since Warp and Brainfeeder were involved, you get the press.

It can be done. But still, it is deserved. An amazing product from every angle.

An unknown identity can cause quite a bit of hysteria for some reason.

Overall tho, the whole product, music, art and mystery of who he really was, were executed very well. The hype started for me on these boards. Some thread some kid posted. That's a few thousand people. X's that by 3 other similar message boards, that's almost 10 000. Get Earl SweatShirt, that's a few hundred thousand. Since Warp and Brainfeeder were involved, you get the press.

It can be done. But still, it is deserved. An amazing product from every angle.

I don't doubt that the whole project has a lot of fans. agreed on all your points about the combination of various fanbases making it a perfect storm. it's just the logistics of it that confuse me, though I guess it's possible. for example if you do a google search for it, it appears that news of the release was dispersed pretty much exclusively through twitter. Flow- did you post here before it sold out? I'm just surprised it would sell out well before making the rounds on discussion boards, blogs, etc. There's some discussion some places but mainly older speculation on the subject, like on this thread. I mean did ANYBODY on STMB managed to get their hands on a copy??? I'm sure there are easily 1000 people out there more than willing to pay for this, but moving 1000 in a couple hours based off of a few tweets and retweets is pretty impressive even for flylo, or so it seems to me. especially when none of us dedicated cats were quick enough.

I knew it would sell out fast, way too much hype and the people associated only add to it.
Still can't believe how fast it did sell though, I figured I would at least have a day or two to grab it lol
Guess I should have been checking by the hour xP

might've just been the odd future hype that surrounded it. although it didn't turn out being any of the members, it still turned a lot of people onto this type of shit.

i feel like they might have been involved still, and arent taking ANY credit for it whatsoever, it was the track that CM did with EARL that hyped up Duality, no one would have even hyped it as much if he didnt get involved

Besides Earl Sweatshirt's verse I doubt Odd Future had anything to do with the album, besides maybe being present during a recording session or rubbing off onto Flying Lotus making him rap a certain way and rap certain lines.

Besides Earl Sweatshirt's verse I doubt Odd Future had anything to do with the album, besides maybe being present during a recording session or rubbing off onto Flying Lotus making him rap a certain way and rap certain lines.

Definitely this. Without a doubt. I said this to myself the moment i realized it was Flying Lotus.

got mine in the mail today. Sounds great and the clear wax/label stickers looks dope.
Kinda wish they had put a little more effort into the packaging though since they had all that great art to work with... I know it's under the radar and limited and all that but would it have killed them to go gatefold? jacket's kinda flimsy.